| FBI: Cyberfraud losses doubled in 2009 |
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Mar 13, 2010 - 6:05 AM - by ArticleBot
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Last year was a tough one for most businesses, but for cybercriminals it was one of the best yet.
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| Three new options emerge for managing smartphones in the enterprise |
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Mar 13, 2010 - 6:05 AM - by ArticleBot
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The surge of iPhones and other smartphones in the enterprise is a major headache for IT departments. Now, there are three new medicines that may help to ease that pain.
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| British Airways IT worker charged for 'terrorism plot' |
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Mar 12, 2010 - 5:48 PM - by ArticleBot
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A British Airways software developer planned to carry out terrorist attacks by taking advantage of a walkout by airline staff, a court heard today.
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| Security execs express surprise over CISO's firing following RSA talk |
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Mar 12, 2010 - 5:48 PM - by ArticleBot
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Several security executives today expressed surprise over the firing of Pennsylvanias chief information security officer, apparently for publicly speaking about a security incident involving the Commonwealth's online driving exam scheduling system without getting the required approvals first.
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| IE zero-day exploit code goes public |
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Mar 12, 2010 - 5:46 AM - by ArticleBot
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An Israeli researcher has published exploit code for an Internet Explorer zero-day vulnerability that Microsoft had just disclosed on Tuesday.
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| Security industry faces attacks it cannot stop |
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Mar 12, 2010 - 5:46 AM - by ArticleBot
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At the RSA Conference in San Francisco last week, security vendors pitched their next-generation of security products, promising to protect customers from security threats in the cloud and on mobile devices. But what went largely unsaid was that the industry has failed to protect paying customers from some of today's most pernicious threats.
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| HSBC: Data theft incident broader than first thought |
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Mar 11, 2010 - 4:41 PM - by ArticleBot
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HSBC said Thursday about 15,000 accounts of its Swiss private banking unit were compromised after an employee allegedly stole data, some of which ended up in the hands of French tax authorities.
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| Celebrities caused 2009 Twitter crime wave |
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Mar 11, 2010 - 4:41 PM - by ArticleBot
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Criminals started targeting Twitter in earnest during a key period in early 2009, and security company Barracuda Labs has worked out why. During the same few weeks a key list of a-list celebrities joined the site.
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| Pennsylvania fires CISO over RSA talk |
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Mar 11, 2010 - 4:24 AM - by ArticleBot
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Pennsylvania's chief information security officer, Robert Maley, has been fired, apparently for talking publicly at the RSA security conference last week about a recent incident involving the Commonwealths online driving exam scheduling system.
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| Biometrics: What, Where and Why |
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Mar 11, 2010 - 4:24 AM - by ArticleBot
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Biometrics encompasses a variety of methods for ensuring identity based on physical or behavioral traits. Conventional identifying traits include fingerprints, face topology, iris structure, hand geometry, vein structure, voice, signature and keystroke recognition. Emerging technologies analyze characteristics such as gait, odor, and ear shape. Rather than being used in isolation, biometrics systems are increasingly becoming multimodal, an approach that serves both to increase security and... [Read More]
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| Twitter to begin screening some links for phishing |
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Mar 10, 2010 - 4:12 PM - by ArticleBot
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Twitter launched a new link-screening service on Tuesday aimed at preventing phishing and other malicious attacks against users of the popular microblogging service.
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| News: Change in Focus |
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Mar 10, 2010 - 10:48 AM - by ArticleBot
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Change in Focus
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| News: PhotoDNA scans images for child abuse |
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Mar 10, 2010 - 10:48 AM - by ArticleBot
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PhotoDNA scans images for child abuse
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| Practical priorities in PCI DSS logging |
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Mar 10, 2010 - 4:01 AM - by ArticleBot
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PCI security guidance mandates not only the creation of logs and retention, but also their review. It is essential that your logging policy and procedures cover such daily review tasks, whether using log management tools or manually.
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| Indian banker charged with online funds fraud |
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Mar 10, 2010 - 4:01 AM - by ArticleBot
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A senior Indian banker has been arrested by Indian police for an online fraud in which hackers siphoned close to 2.7 million Indian rupees (US$60,000) from a bank account, a senior police official of the Indian state of Tamil Nadu said on Wednesday.
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